+1 ! ________________________________ From: Christian de Larrinaga<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 12/06/2013 18:40 To: Nigel Titley<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [uknof] Recommendations for VOIP provider in the UK
The spineless attitude in Ofcom to porting is seriously inadequate in my humble opinion. There should be a national porting service that ENUM like would manage the routing without having to ingress into a legacy supply chain. Other countries manage it. Christian Nigel Titley wrote: > On 12/06/2013 14:34, Gavin Henry wrote: >>>> The ITSPA members list is a good place to start >>>> http://www.itspa.org.uk/members.shtml Some people on here are more >>>> wholesale. >>>> >> Hi Nigel, >> >> Also check out those with the QMA symbol as that will shorten your list. >> >> Some things to check before moving away: >> >> 1. Your phone numbers; will you be porting them away? > It would be less hassle than informing several thousand customers... so yes >> 2. If yes, were they ported to Gradwell or are they brand new? > They were brand new and assigned to to us by Gradwell >> 3. If new, then the Ofcom range holder is probably Telephony Services >> which means legally when you move away the calls still come into >> Telephony Services/Gradwell/AQL and then bounce back out with a >> special prefix for the new provider. That's how porting works. > Hmm.... >> >> Therefore, if they have network issues or downtime in the core then >> the calls won't get sent back out to the new provider even though >> you've moved on. > That's more than a little annoying... but I can see why it would be the > case. > > Thanks for the information > > Nigel >
